Why not Cryonics

[j.a. kiernan]

On Tue, 20 Aug 1996, Eugene Leitl wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Aug 1996, J. A. Kiernan wrote:
> > In article <4v78ap$jsv at krypto.zippo.com> cryofan at brokersys.com (Randy Smith) writes:
> > >Subject: Why not Cryonics
> > >I'm been investigating cryonics lately have yet to find any solid reasons why 
> > >it won't work.
> > >Anyone here have any good reasons why it won't work?

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> I am sorry, but below you provide some misinformation I cannot let stand 
> uncorrected.
>                    . . . . corpse freezing
> -- Eugene Leitl
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   There was a temptation to reply point by point to the 3 screenfuls 
   of pseudo-scientific gobbleygook in this letter, until I came to 
   the sig. at the bottom!

   Suffice it to say that all this has nothing to do histotechnology;
   I'm sorry if I've provoked a flood of irrelevant letters by answering
   the original enquiry.

                                     John A. Kiernan
                                     Department of Anatomy
                                     Univ. of Western Ontario
                                     LONDON, Canada  N6A 5C1
                                     e-mail: kiernan at uwo.ca